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“…Opening the evening was Leyla Ebrahimi, a Persian-American singer-songwriter whose relatively short recording history belies an already well-defined musical identity. Raised in Virginia before eventually making her way to Brooklyn, Ebrahimi only began releasing music in 2024, but has quickly built momentum around songs that treat emotional vulnerability less as something delicate than something capable of exploding without warning. That progression culminated this June with her debut EP, Planet You Forgot Me, a six-song introduction to an artist who seems particularly interested in all of the messy spaces between longing, abandonment, desire and self-preservation.
Musically, Ebrahimi proved to be a particularly fitting choice to open for Humberstone. Her songs can begin with the intimacy of an acoustic confession before swelling into dream-pop, electronic textures and distorted alt-rock, often allowing sweetness and volatility to occupy the same space. “I’m Sorry Maria,” for example, moves from mellow guitars and almost nostalgic pop into increasingly urgent synths and distortion, a dynamic that captures much of what makes Ebrahimi intriguing at this early stage of her career. There is something restless about her music, as though the quietest thought might suddenly become the loudest thing in the room. For an audience waiting for Humberstone, whose own songwriting thrives on turning private anxieties into communal catharsis, Ebrahimi made considerable sense as the night’s opening voice….”
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